An estimated 290,000 surgical-site infections occur each year in U.S. hospitals, and Rothâs is an example of the agony they can cause. A few days after his surgery Roth was in so much pain he had to return to the hospital.nly 544 of the hospitals in our Ratings have data for surgical-site infections, from 14 states that require their public reporting. Of those hospitals, 82 reported zero such infections. Infections linked to central-line catheters may be even more worrisome. They kill up to 16,250 patients a year, research suggests.
But by the 1950's New Yorkers no longer relied on rail for vacation travel and the fading hotels of Mahopac gradually lost appeal. Over time, all the hotels burned or were torn down, and Mahopac evolved into the year-round community it is today.
During the night of December 2-3, 1984, a storage tank containing methyl isocyanate (MIC) at the Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked gas into the densely populated city of Bhopal, India. Killing an estimated 3,000 to 6,000 people, the Bhopal Gas Leak was one of the worst industrial accidents in history. Cutting Costs. Union Carbide India, Ltd. built a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India in the late 1970s in an effort to produce pesticides locally to help increase production on local farms. 1  However, sales of pesticide didn't materialize in the numbers hoped for and the plant was soon losing money.